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re: Has Anyone In The Sports Media Ever Heard Of Bart Starr?
Posted on 2/3/15 at 10:16 am to Baloo
Posted on 2/3/15 at 10:16 am to Baloo
IMO, the biggest improvement in track and field is the synthetic tracks.
In 1936, Jesse Owens set the world record in the long jump at the Big Ten Championships. His mark stood as the world record for 25 years, the Big Ten record until 2010, the school record until 2013 and would have won the 2014 NCAA Championships.
In 1934, LSU's Glen "Slats" Hardin set the world record in the 400-meter hurdles at a meet in Stockholm, Sweden. His mark stood for the record for 19 years and would have placed him 5th at the 2014 NCAA Championships.
Neither Owens nor Hardin ever competed on a synthetic track, nor did they benefit from legal PED's (eg. creatine), not to mention the illegal ones, and it goes without saying that their travel and training methods were very primitive by today's standards.
Allow these things to sink in for a second and think what they might have been capable of if they had been born 80 years later.
In 1936, Jesse Owens set the world record in the long jump at the Big Ten Championships. His mark stood as the world record for 25 years, the Big Ten record until 2010, the school record until 2013 and would have won the 2014 NCAA Championships.
In 1934, LSU's Glen "Slats" Hardin set the world record in the 400-meter hurdles at a meet in Stockholm, Sweden. His mark stood for the record for 19 years and would have placed him 5th at the 2014 NCAA Championships.
Neither Owens nor Hardin ever competed on a synthetic track, nor did they benefit from legal PED's (eg. creatine), not to mention the illegal ones, and it goes without saying that their travel and training methods were very primitive by today's standards.
Allow these things to sink in for a second and think what they might have been capable of if they had been born 80 years later.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 12:40 pm to trackfan
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IMO, the biggest improvement in track and field is the synthetic tracks.
In 1936, Jesse Owens set the world record in the long jump at the Big Ten Championships. His mark stood as the world record for 25 years, the Big Ten record until 2010, the school record until 2013 and would have won the 2014 NCAA Championships.
Great info on Jesse Owens. His records stood nearly a century despite the disadvantages of his era (poor tracks, no blocks, shoes ,legal or illegal peds,etc...)
Amazing that Owens was about 5'10 & 160lbs soaking wet( No peds here) with inferior shoes, dirt tracks & no starting blocks..
I was reading an article awhile back that since 1984 Donovan Bailey & Usain Bolt are the only 100 meter champs(Olympics) that haven't failed a drug test .
The 100 meter record fell numerous times because of the so called 'superior modern athletes' & most have been busted for PEDs:
Tim Montgomery ,Linford Christie, Justin Gatlin, Asafa Powell, Ben Johnson, Tyson Gay ,Carl Lewis, Maurice Greene,etc....All busted & I may be missing a few Olympic or World record holders since 1983/Calvin Smith.
Calvin Smith (ironically no larger than Owens ) finally broke Jim Hines record of 1968 which stood for 15 years before Smith broke it in 1983.
Calvin Smith takes pride in being the last 'natural sprinter' to break the 100 meter record.
The beautiful Evelyn Ashford 100 meter record would still stand after more than 30 years if not for Flo-Jo (who I am convinced was dirty).
What about those inferior athletes of the 60's like Bob Beamon & his long jump record which has only been surpassed once in nearly 50 years?
People are insane if they believe the human body can evolve so greatly within a generation or two or 3 . It's absurb.
This post was edited on 2/3/15 at 12:46 pm
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